From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 20:58:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA20288 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from zip.io.org (root@zip.io.org [198.133.36.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA20283 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by zip.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA25980; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:58:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:58:14 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Joerg Wunsch cc: Joe Greco , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web server locks up... but not quite. (?) In-Reply-To: <199602170804.JAA08102@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > > Hmm, we've also experienced these symptoms at sax.sax.de (small local > non-commercial ISP), and i admit that i've basically been suspecting > hardware in the first place. Your reports make me nervous however > that it might be software. The system is plain 2.0.5R. Could be... some sort of deadlock in the VM paging routines? :( > Brian, if you got physical access to the box, try placing a simple > card into the PC that hooks ISA pins A1/B1 to a pushbutton. Pushing > it will cause an NMI (``IO channel check condition''), hopefully > leaving you a coredump. Uh, what? :) I'm a hardware klutz. I'm happy that I was able to hook up nine hard drives to the news server today and have it running on the first try. :) I do have console access... how do I get a kernel core dump while using the pcvt driver? Ctrl-Alt-Esc doesn't seem to do anything. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"